Bryce Canyon
trail: Navajo Loop and Peekaboo Loop Trail
hikers: Seth, Mark, Lecia
distance: I think it was about 5 miles according to alltrails, with 1407 ft elevation gain, and labeled moderately challenging on alltrails.
It took us a little longer than 3 hours, which is surprising since alltrails says it an average of 2 hours and 55 minutes and we were not going fast. Seth could have cruised right along but Mark and I kept the pace a little slower.
We started at Sunset Point on the Navajo Loop Trail. Bryce Canyon is so uniquely beautiful and brings back memories of being here as a kid, and bringing my own kids!
Looking out over the canyon from the rim.
Looking up at where he have hiked!
Looking down, we still have more switchbacks.
And we'll be hiking up this on the way back!
And the famous Wall Street!
If you want a shorter hike than what we did, Navajo loop is just the thing. Only 1.3 miles round trip but it's all down and then back up, but it's so cool.
We continued on to the Peekaboo Loop.
Notice the horse sign next to the trail marker. This is the trail they take horse riders on!
It was actually a long line of horses and riders, not just the few you see here. I am no horse rider but at this point it seemed like a mighty good idea! Maybe some day.
We went though a little tunnel and you can see Seth on the other side. Maybe this is where the name Peekaboo loop comes from. ?
The Bryce Point trail would take you out of the canyon but we continued on our loop.
Bryce Canyon hoodoos
Going back up.
We made it!
This was a long and I would consider it a challenging hike because it was up and down and up and down, and most of it is in the sun. But because of that it was a rewarding hike because I felt like we had accomplished something!
This is a bird we saw near where we parked. I looked it up and it is a Stellar's jay!
